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Jordan’s cabinet abolishes marriage loophole for rapists

AMMAN, April 25 (Xinhua) — A law which used to protect rapists from punishment if they married their victims has been scrapped in Jordan, marking a major victory of women’s rights activists after years of campaigning. The Jordanian cabinet on Sunday revoked Article 308 of the Penal Code, which states that rapists are spared from […]

Iraqi troops recapture new neighborhood from IS in western Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq, April 25 (Xinhua) — Iraqi government forces on Tuesday freed a new neighborhood after heavy clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants in the western side of Mosul, the Iraqi military said. The elite forces, known as Counter Terrorism Service (CTS), drove out IS militants from the neighborhood of al-Tanak in western edge of […]

Almost 7,000 Russians suffer from tick bites

MOSCOW, April 25 (Xinhua) — About 6,900 Russians with tick bites have been admitted to hospitals since March 16, the Russian news agency TASS reported Tuesday. “Rospotrebnadzor believes that such dynamics corresponds to the average level”, TASS quoted Russian federal health and epidemic watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying. Since March 16, the department has begun to […]

GRAMEENPHONE’S WHITE-BOARD HOSTS FACEBOOK’S F8 MEETUP

DHAKA, April 25 (NsNewsWire) — White-Board, Grameenphone’s platform for digital innovators in association of Facebook Developer Circle Dhaka, hosted the F8 Meetup in Dhaka on April 19, 2017 at GPHouse. This event was held in relation with Facebook’s annual developer conference F8, which was held in San Jose, California, on April 18 and April 19. […]

Chevron Announces Planned Sale of Bangladesh Companies

SAN RAMON, April 24 (NsNewsWire) — Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Chevron Global Ventures, Ltd., has entered into an agreement to sell the shares of its wholly-owned indirect subsidiaries operating in Bangladesh to Himalaya Energy Co. Ltd. Chevron Bangladesh operates Block 12 (Bibiyana Field) and Blocks 13 and 14 (Jalalabad and […]

RANKSTEL hands over 40 mln taka as license fee to BTRC

DHAKA, April 23 (NsNewsWire) — RANKSTEL, a leading Bangladeshi telecom company, has recently paid 40 million taka license fee up to June 2017 to the country’s telecom regulator. A team of Rankstel officials led by its Chief Financial Officer Masudur Rahman handed over a cheque of 40 million taka to Ashish Kumar Kundu, Director Account […]

Top DPRK leader stresses self-reliance in farm production for army

PYONGYANG, April 23 (Xinhua) — Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), stressed self-reliance in farm production for the army when inspecting an army farm on Saturday, official media reported Sunday. The Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim visited a pig farm owned by the airforce of the […]

Two Japanese destroyers depart for possible drill with U.S. carrier group: media

TOKYO, April 21 (Xinhua) — Two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) destroyers departed from Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture on Friday, local media reported. The media quoted the Japanese Defense Ministry sources as saying the destroyers are likely to take part in a joint drill with the U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson strike group. The Carl […]

Bangladesh July-February imports reaches nearly 30 bln USD

DHAKA, April 21 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s imports surged about 11.13 percent to nearly 30 billion U.S. dollars in the first eight months of the current 2016-17 fiscal year ending in June, a central bank official said Thursday, reports Xinhua. An official from the Bangladesh Bank (BB) said the settlement of letters of credit (LCs), generally […]